Tobacco free kids with plain packaging.

Around 100,000 people in the UK die each year due to smoking** - and most, unfortunately start as children. Peer pressure plays a huge part in encouraging kids to try smoking. But so do the designed cigarette packs that are used to entice young people. So what are the real facts about smoking? And what can we do to help and encourage smoke free children?

* This number reflects the total amount of people who have signed up to support the plain packaging of tobacco products, via the Plain Packs Protect Partnership (logos below), British Heart Foundation and Cancer Research UK websites.

VIEWS

Shopkeeper Mark Brackenbury explaining why he supports plain packaging, and how he doesn’t feel it will harm small traders. Watch the video above.